NOTHING is Glorious

Do I really have to do anything? Everyone expect that I should have done “something” for my birthday.

Go out. Go clubbing. Go to a nice restaurant. Go catch gonorrhea.

But I’ll let you what – I did nothing. I did nothing and it was everything I dreamed it could be. Plus there was ilish [...]

The NOW answer

I think one of the more annoying aspects of human curiosity is the demand for the NOW answer. We want everything to be definitively explained NOW. And so we fill in the blanks for questions whose answers we aren’t prepared to answer yet.

Who created us? What came before the Big Bang? Why is Cleveland [...]

Fighting for Substance

A quarter-life crisis to be followed by a mid-life crisis to be followed by a late-life crisis to be followed by death

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk and the subsequent movie starring Ed Norton, Jr and Brad Pitt, I think, serves as one of the great stories about modern man’s dissatisfaction with his lot in [...]

Having the courage to change

The freedom to change our lives, as we ostensibly have in Amrikan society, is largely an illusion without possessing the courage to change our lives. It is believed that roughly 80% of the people on this planet (if not more) do not like their jobs. But they find a way, some way, somehow, to [...]

Communities of the Third Culture

I still go to dawats, those Bangladeshi dinner parties where the men prattle on about religion, politics or football, the women discuss jewelry, religion, politics or football and the children run around like chickens with their heads cut off… and discuss football. (Hey, we live in Pittsburgh).

By this point in my life, I’m often [...]

Star Trek Review

I saw Star Trek this weekend and it was excellent!! Lots of explosions, evil aliens and attractive people. It was just a fun, fun movie.

This Star Trek movie really has a lot for folks who have experience with the Trek franchise and those who know nothing about it. I love how they put all [...]

Under the Hood

The University of Tennessee recently offered a football scholarship to a kid named Daniel Hood, who at the age of 13, helped tie up his 14-year old cousin and watched as her 17-year old boyfriend raped her. Hood was convicted of kidnapping and aggravated rape. The boyfriend was convicted of rape and assault and is [...]

X-Men Origins & Movie Reviews

The early critics’ reviews of the new movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as well as a perusal of Rotten Tomatoes have not been good. The PG gave it 1 1/2 stars. Rotten Tomatoes gives it an aggregate 37%, with the top critics landing it an abysmal 18%.

This reminds me of a [...]